Nostr notes by sedited

Do you have a collection of some?

2026-10-26T06:10:15Z

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Do you have a collection of some?

It had its funny moments 🤠

2026-09-12T11:10:48Z

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It had its funny moments 🤠

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2026-09-11T21:04:59Z

Didn't enjoy Tombstone

Gambler's ruin still the only relevant theory. ...

2026-08-09T08:29:31Z

Gambler's ruin still the only relevant theory.

quoting
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Some people seem confused about section eleven of the whitepaper.

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2026-08-02T16:43:48Z

New fall of civ 😊

The secp pull request just got merged: ...

2026-07-23T06:06:35Z

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The secp pull request just got merged: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1/pull/1765

Apparently so.

2026-07-05T17:33:58Z

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Apparently so.

Yes, that proof generation is already possible and has been done ...

2026-07-05T08:29:04Z

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Yes, that proof generation is already possible and has been done by a few people now. It is the main motivation behind this work. Long term the goal is to have the same capability for full block validation.

Just commenting on the Rugby from earlier.

2026-07-04T19:52:39Z

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Just commenting on the Rugby from earlier.

And he's the staff-level officer to run it.

2026-07-03T21:06:15Z

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And he's the staff-level officer to run it.

Heh, funny that you posted that the other day.

2026-06-30T18:23:30Z

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Heh, funny that you posted that the other day.

You can still limit datacarriersize in v31 if that is what you ...

2026-06-28T21:46:34Z

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You can still limit datacarriersize in v31 if that is what you mean. There is nothing under handed about this. The project just doesn't have the resources to endlessly backport. That said, the v29 backport we just shipped as a release candidate, has some of these improvements included as well.

Ek's van die Klein Karoo af, so ek ken goed van die hele ...

2026-06-24T08:49:34Z

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Ek's van die Klein Karoo af, so ek ken goed van die hele area.

For the love of preserving vernacular, please stop shipping piss ...

2026-06-20T08:58:32Z

For the love of preserving vernacular, please stop shipping piss colored websites.

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2026-06-20T08:10:31Z

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Been listening to your music since Vollmilch, thank you for that!

2026-06-05T13:09:55Z

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Been listening to your music since Vollmilch, thank you for that!

My experience so far has been the opposite. Either creating ...

2026-06-04T14:13:53Z

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My experience so far has been the opposite. Either creating needlessly complex generics, or completely failing to understand them.

Really? I think I'm the most bullish I've been.

2026-05-29T08:07:33Z

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Really? I think I'm the most bullish I've been.

Not once have a found myself saying "I wish I had ...

2026-05-27T18:59:11Z

Not once have a found myself saying "I wish I had date-prefixed branch names"

Yes, and this patch is slated for v32: ...

2026-05-25T16:28:25Z

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Yes, and this patch is slated for v32: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30951

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2026-04-26T07:27:07Z

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There's a government gazette for proposed legislation ...

2026-04-25T12:51:19Z

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There's a government gazette for proposed legislation limiting pretty much everything. The tldr here does a good job of describing it https://ag.bitcoinzar.co.za/

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2026-04-10T19:59:56Z

Same for high temperature super conductors. There are a few now ...

2026-04-08T05:36:13Z

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Same for high temperature super conductors. There are a few now that are close to 0 Celsius, but they require such insane pressures that they are useless for most applications.

Lol, wouldn't have expected a sten

2026-03-24T19:01:08Z

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Lol, wouldn't have expected a sten

Waiting for the bitcoin core PR 🙄

2026-03-21T17:54:49Z

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Waiting for the bitcoin core PR 🙄

Loved the video, looked pretty chill. I think that was in 2008. ...

2026-03-13T13:27:34Z

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Loved the video, looked pretty chill.

I think that was in 2008. Crazy scenes on the Zambia/Botswana border too. The backlog on trucks trying to cross the border was a multi week wait. Both sides had soldiers patrolling them to avoid looting. Back then there was only a barge doing the crossing, iirc two trucks every 20 minutes or so. There is a bridge there now :)

Probably the most depressing border I've been to. Was there ...

2026-03-07T19:58:28Z

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Probably the most depressing border I've been to. Was there when the situation was really bad again and people attempted to barter my clothing out of desperation.

Exactly.

2026-02-27T18:27:13Z

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Exactly.

Or now again.

2026-02-15T09:54:36Z

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Or now again.

> Its increasing There's not been a significant increase ...

2026-02-06T18:08:22Z

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> Its increasing
There's not been a significant increase in usage of large op returns over the past half year. The utxo set has been steadily shrinking in the same time frame.

The chart you showed seems to be measuring small op_returns too, which bip110 does not stop.

Not against stopping spam, strongly disagree with the method.

2026-02-06T13:00:48Z

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Not against stopping spam, strongly disagree with the method.

I wonder how many people still self host their own lightning node ...

2026-02-02T06:31:40Z

I wonder how many people still self host their own lightning node without the help of a third party.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/g7LhrSYEjt6PQGEPA

2026-01-26T19:51:40Z

https://maps.app.goo.gl/g7LhrSYEjt6PQGEPA

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2026-01-23T15:36:26Z

First proper work week in the new role.

Can't wait to be going back here again soon. ...

2026-01-22T16:59:39Z

Can't wait to be going back here again soon.

Cash on the internet.

2026-01-15T10:37:19Z

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Cash on the internet.

Lol, I would not trust that :P

2026-01-15T03:04:06Z

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Lol, I would not trust that :P

Why is that proposed at all?

2026-01-14T12:36:15Z

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Why is that proposed at all?

Like now, for example.

2026-01-11T03:51:19Z

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Like now, for example.

It's literally what got me into Bitcoin

2026-01-09T11:51:09Z

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It's literally what got me into Bitcoin

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2025-11-22T20:00:54Z

What a brutal game, but they held it.

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2025-11-20T17:25:51Z

Look at my analooogy. I am analoooooogizing!

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2025-11-19T16:34:46Z

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It's a pity that aezeed didn't catch on. It came out just ...

2025-11-15T22:56:37Z

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It's a pity that aezeed didn't catch on. It came out just a bit too late.

Willemse, Williams, Moodie, Libbok, Arendse backline too good. ...

2025-11-15T14:37:25Z

Willemse, Williams, Moodie, Libbok, Arendse backline too good. Just so much faster than their opposition when they get going. Completely changed the pace of the springbok attack. That last cross kick was on the money.

Yes, that's it :)

2025-11-14T22:50:25Z

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Yes, that's it :)

Adjust the java version and add imports for the java crypto ...

2025-11-14T22:34:22Z

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Adjust the java version and add imports for the java crypto stuff.

Noone would do that job if they wouldn't believe in it. ...

2025-11-14T14:54:50Z

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Noone would do that job if they wouldn't believe in it. It's stressful, hard, boring, and the pay aint stellar in comparison to industry either.

Because she demonstrated competence and was for that reason ...

2025-11-14T14:52:12Z

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Because she demonstrated competence and was for that reason appointed as a maintainer by her peer contributors.

That's some nice tooling, had to slightly tweak your example ...

2025-11-14T13:24:59Z

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That's some nice tooling, had to slightly tweak your example to include the correct imports, but ran all of them. Nix is magic in the sense that this would have been really annoying to setup by myself and now it just works .

We've run into this problem where the same code built through ...

2025-11-14T07:55:50Z

We've run into this problem where the same code built through our reproducible builds infrastructure has these weird registry switchups between running the build environment on an x86 machine and an aarch64 machine. At this point I would pay for someone to explain what is going on here. It doesn't make sense to me. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33775#issuecomment-3523047473

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2025-11-11T15:11:10Z

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Yes :)

2025-11-06T07:29:29Z

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Yes :)

Not as a daily driver, but we've been testing it out in ...

2025-11-06T07:11:23Z

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Not as a daily driver, but we've been testing it out in Bitcoin Core to make CI and dev environments more reproducible. A few tools were migrated to nix recently.

I haven't used java in a very long time, so can't say I ...

2025-11-06T07:05:18Z

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I haven't used java in a very long time, so can't say I have :P

Would be cool if you guys could work with it too! I think even if ...

2025-11-06T05:59:56Z

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Would be cool if you guys could work with it too! I think even if you have little interest in it as a replacement for your own consensus code, it might still be interesting as a tool to improve robustness.

Great episode!

2025-11-05T10:01:55Z

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Great episode!

Mmh, I'm planning on adding coin lookups, then you can ...

2025-11-04T18:47:27Z

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Mmh, I'm planning on adding coin lookups, then you can program that yourself.

Didn't expect this today: The bitcoin kernel API is now in ...

2025-11-04T16:27:04Z

Didn't expect this today: The bitcoin kernel API is now in Bitcoin Core's master branch! A decade of effort for various contributors and three years from myself: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30595

Looking forward to an ecosystem of implementations, full nodes, and tools being developed around it!

Nice episode.

2025-11-04T13:31:40Z

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Nice episode.

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2025-11-02T17:59:03Z

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Well, if there is going to be a soft fork, which seems ...

2025-10-26T08:33:00Z

Well, if there is going to be a soft fork, which seems increasingly likely now, this conflict might be resolved after all.

Two projects I know well, liana and the bitbox02 firmware, are ...

2025-10-24T06:23:09Z

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Two projects I know well, liana and the bitbox02 firmware, are written in rust and have reproducible builds setups. But maybe you mean something else?

rustc does reproducible builds.

2025-10-24T05:49:24Z

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rustc does reproducible builds.

Some actual movement happening here too!

2025-10-23T21:15:12Z

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Some actual movement happening here too!

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2025-10-22T07:21:48Z

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2025-10-19T21:58:32Z

msvc is really testing my patience again.

Are DIs really going to beat their recruits again? Seems ...

2025-10-18T18:01:16Z

Are DIs really going to beat their recruits again? Seems outlandish to even think that laying hands is going to improve combat readiness.

Yeah, shaky reasoning at best.

2025-10-18T16:50:56Z

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Yeah, shaky reasoning at best.

Indeed :)

2025-10-18T16:49:02Z

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Indeed :)

Mmh, might gave that new tame impala a listen too

2025-10-17T18:56:19Z

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Mmh, might gave that new tame impala a listen too

It now supports musig descriptors: ...

2025-10-15T09:56:46Z

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It now supports musig descriptors: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29675

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2025-10-15T06:50:19Z

The core wallet now supports musig :)

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2025-10-14T18:57:33Z

Bafana bafana qualifies! 😁

There's now an api endpoint to do validation without a utxo ...

2025-10-13T06:47:35Z

There's now an api endpoint to do validation without a utxo set. On to doing validation without a filesystem at all and evicting the mempool.

Sheesh, nog so 'n wen en hulle kry net die trophy folgende ...

2025-10-11T08:00:01Z

Sheesh, nog so 'n wen en hulle kry net die trophy folgende week en die spelers kan 'n mooi somer op vakansie geniet..

What is the root cause that needs fixing here?

2025-10-10T16:21:46Z

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What is the root cause that needs fixing here?

These are not potential problems. We already saw this play out ...

2025-10-10T16:21:00Z

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These are not potential problems. We already saw this play out during a spam hype in 2015. Spammers moved to fake key outputs, which lead to unnecessary permanent bloat utxo set bloat. It is likely that such a cycle will occur again that it happened three times already now.

Eh, I messed up, killed the wrong job and then noticed too late ...

2025-10-09T19:28:25Z

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Eh, I messed up, killed the wrong job and then noticed too late that it was today :P

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2025-10-09T17:14:03Z

Missed the asmap launch again 🫣

Working on context mininal validation again. Hope to have ...

2025-10-07T17:59:45Z

Working on context mininal validation again. Hope to have something soon to share.

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2025-10-07T17:55:19Z

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2025-10-03T16:54:18Z

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https://jump.ohstr.com/nevent1qqspzj8tcx9xu6ypqzy984p7dlzppea2nwthcmf6n9rdjp26a0jgvpqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumrpdejqygpwkqap7vtv8nuujq8875mwu289fp35jpnmuqv2jed8cl99knml8sazrtl8

I think there is some momentum towards that. The chain interface + the work being done on parallelizing indexing might also make this an easier sell.

It's opposite for me. I really don't like the gear (and I ...

2025-10-02T09:09:15Z

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It's opposite for me. I really don't like the gear (and I paid for that once 🥴🤭).

That's me working on the consensus library :) It's gotten ...

2025-10-01T21:12:07Z

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That's me working on the consensus library :)
It's gotten quite far, I hope an initial interface for it will be in the code and re-usable by projects by the time v31 is tagged.

We indeed get a lot of mentoring from the og devs. They still ...

2025-10-01T21:09:33Z

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We indeed get a lot of mentoring from the og devs. They still dominate much of the tenor of the project and its direction.

Mmh, I'd actually be interested in giving you guys a visit ...

2025-09-30T21:00:05Z

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Mmh, I'd actually be interested in giving you guys a visit some time. Would anybody there be interested in some of the work I've been doing with Core's consensus code? Will miss out on the conference again though, you always seem to be picking the dates around major events in my life :P.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved ...

2025-09-30T11:17:56Z

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.

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2025-09-29T06:10:27Z

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You will be able to store 20 years worth of data in under 2 TB no ...

2025-09-28T14:26:00Z

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You will be able to store 20 years worth of data in under 2 TB no matter the OP_RETURN usage.

Stormers didn't field their best team today either, a solid ...

2025-09-26T19:29:43Z

Stormers didn't field their best team today either, a solid win in the books.

Actually I think that would be pretty cool. Probably also not too ...

2025-09-26T13:26:07Z

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Actually I think that would be pretty cool. Probably also not too crazy of an effort, since it is well specced.

Wow, great recruitment effort!

2025-09-26T11:30:50Z

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Wow, great recruitment effort!

> Conservative and well reviewed. That is Core to be frank. ...

2025-09-26T06:00:16Z

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> Conservative and well reviewed.

That is Core to be frank.

Should it ideally reimplement consensus, or use core's engine?

There is a distinction and it indeed gets a bit fuzzy. I.e. ...

2025-09-21T21:23:56Z

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There is a distinction and it indeed gets a bit fuzzy. I.e. outputs bigger than 64?bytes (iirc) require extra allocations when writing to disk, but obviously that's no argument for prohibiting other types. A weaker reason with stronger (lol!) assumptions about its usage is that it should be theoretically spendable unless marked as such. Some script pubkeys might not be, which is a reason to only allow "types" that at least formally are.

Both full rbf and sub sat fee txs made it through what could well ...

2025-09-19T15:58:17Z

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Both full rbf and sub sat fee txs made it through what could well be called fully deployed filters. The op_return filter specifically created a perverse incentive that led to counterparty, omni, and stamps embedding data in outputs, which is strictly worse than if they could have used op_return instead. The rule should have been relaxed a decade ago in my opinion.

Mmh, who might have written that? 🤔😄

2025-09-19T15:26:58Z

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Mmh, who might have written that? 🤔😄

Knots is deploying policy rules to filter transactions that are ...

2025-09-19T15:25:56Z

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Knots is deploying policy rules to filter transactions that are widely used and broadcast. That is a radical take off from existing practice. Filters do something if miners use them, if not, we have two good examples now that they are virtually useless at prohibiting transactions from reaching miners, or communicating to miners that they should not include them in blockd.

I'd say the exact opposite is true. Not wanting to implement ...

2025-09-19T06:02:35Z

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I'd say the exact opposite is true. Not wanting to implement the filter strategy relies on observations, accounts for human action, and takes the adversarial nazure of an open network into account. The filter strategy is mostly fueled by a mass call to policing action, an entirely moralistic argument, embedded in "if they would just" thinking.